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Then Purun Bhagat smiled, for he remembered that his mother was of Rajput Brahmin birth, from Kulu way a Hill-woman, always home-sick for the snows and that the least touch of Hill blood draws a man in the end back to where he belongs.
Not the assured Soul. Be comforted! Know at least the devils that thou fightest. They are earth-born children of illusion. We will go to the woman from Kulu. She shall acquire merit in housing us, and specially in tending me. Thou shalt run free till strength returns. I had forgotten the stupid Body. If there be any blame, I bear it. But we are too close to the Gates of Deliverance to weigh blame.
I have moved in one matter without consulting thee. I have sent a message to the Kulu woman by that woman who gave us the goat's milk this morn, saying that thou wast a little feeble and wouldst need a litter. I beat myself in my mind that I did not do it when we entered the Doon. We stay in this place till the litter returns. 'I am content.
I would have gone there again this year, but my daughter we have only two sons. Phaii! Such is the effect of these low plains. Now in Kulu men are elephants. But I would ask thy Holy One stand aside, rogue a charm against most lamentable windy colics that in mango-time overtake my daughter's eldest. Two years back he gave me a powerful spell.
I could praise thee, but what need? In a little in a very little we shall sit beyond all needs. And so he petted and comforted Kim with wise saws and grave texts on that little-understood beast, our Body, who, being but a delusion, insists on posing as the Soul, to the darkening of the Way, and the immense multiplication of unnecessary devils. 'Hai! hai! Let us talk of the woman from Kulu.
Three years I travelled through Hind, but can earth be stronger than Mother Earth? My stupid body yearned to the Hills and the snows of the Hills, from below there. I said, and it is true, my Search is sure. So, at the Kulu woman's house I turned hillward, over-persuaded by myself. There is no blame to the hakim. He following Desire foretold that the Hills would make me strong.
'Let us go to the Kulu woman's house' said Kim, and stepped forth cheerily under the bundles. Early morning Saharunpore-way is clean and well scented. He thought of the other mornings at St Xavier's, and it topped his already thrice-heaped contentment. 'Where is this new haste born from? Wise men do not run about like chickens in the sun.
She compared the cool and the pines of the Kangra and Kulu hills with the dust and the mangoes of the South; she told a tale of some old local Gods at the edge of her husband's territory; she roundly abused the tobacco which she was then smoking, reviled all Brahmins, and speculated without reserve on the coming of many grandsons.
The other half were duffle-clad, felt-hatted hillmen of the North; and that mixture told its own tale, even if he had not overheard the incessant sparring between the two divisions. The old lady was going south on a visit probably to a rich relative, most probably to a son-in-law, who had sent up an escort as a mark of respect. The hillmen would be of her own people Kulu or Kangra folk.
'Holy One, hast thou ever taken the Road alone? Kim looked up sharply, like the Indian crows so busy about the fields. 'Surely, child: from Kulu to Pathankot from Kulu, where my first chela died. When men were kind to us we made offerings, and all men were well-disposed throughout all the Hills. 'It is otherwise in Hind, said Kim drily. 'Their Gods are many-armed and malignant. Let them alone.
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